Life just pretty much sucks sometimes. There is no other way to put it when you have both strep throat AND mono. I have been out of school this entire week and feel really terrible. Yet, I am still expected to do this blog post because I emailed my teachers and asked them what my homework was. So here I am, sick with mono, strep throat, and possibly an auto-immune disease due to a low blood cell count, doing a blog post. So I figured I'd write about being sick.
I have been to the doctors twice this week where they drew my blood. On Wednesday they told me I had strep throat and my blood count was abnormally low, and should be a lot higher. They then drew more blood to double check this and they were still low. So, I went back today. They drew blood from my finger first but it was still low so now they wanted to test my blood for mono, cancers, and auto-immune diseases. It came back positive for mono and they are sending my blood out to labs to do the other tests. I then had to go next door to Clinical Radiology for chest x-rays to make sure I don't also have pneumonia. They are going to call back later with those results. For now I just have to keep taking my strep antibiotics which, thanks to the mono, can give me a rash. Mono goes away on its own so I just have to sit and wait to feel better. I am going back to the doctors for more blood tests on Sunday.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Homecoming
So this week I didn't really know what to write about for my blog. Nothing is going on in my life that I want to talk about. I'm glad that our teachers have let us write about what we choose now, but I still think that these blogs are a little bit dumb. I don't want to blog about anything really. I don't have anything that I am very passionate about so it's hard to decide what to write. I also don't have anything I am extremely knowledgeable about. So I guess I'll just write about our homecoming game yesterday.
Yesterday was Blair's homecoming game. We don't have a great football team so I wasn't surprised that we lost 22-0. This year, however, we've already managed two wins which is a lot better than we've done in the past few years. Also, it was pouring rain for about the first quarter of the game. Everyone looked like they had jumped in a swimming pool by the second quarter; we were soaked. The halftime show with the poms squad was really good and my bestest bud Alex Alia showed up then. All in all, it was fun and many people were cheering louder than the cheerleaders.
Tonight is the homecoming dance. Instead of being cold like the game was, it is going to be really hot because of all the people dancing. I love to dance so that will be fun and I like dressing up too so that will also be fun.
Well. I'm done for now.
Yesterday was Blair's homecoming game. We don't have a great football team so I wasn't surprised that we lost 22-0. This year, however, we've already managed two wins which is a lot better than we've done in the past few years. Also, it was pouring rain for about the first quarter of the game. Everyone looked like they had jumped in a swimming pool by the second quarter; we were soaked. The halftime show with the poms squad was really good and my bestest bud Alex Alia showed up then. All in all, it was fun and many people were cheering louder than the cheerleaders.
Tonight is the homecoming dance. Instead of being cold like the game was, it is going to be really hot because of all the people dancing. I love to dance so that will be fun and I like dressing up too so that will also be fun.
Well. I'm done for now.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Starting Over
Our teachers have finally let us begin to write about what we want on these blogs we created. So I am going to start over with this blog and introduce myself more.
Hi, my name is Alia.
Now, what is interesting about my life..... let's see. I lived in Egypt for my 5th grade year of school and went to Cairo American College (CAC). We went there because my mom wanted to live overseas for a year with me and my younger brothers. So, my dad took a sabbatical off of work and looked for jobs in other countries. It was down to either Egypt or China and my parents decided on Egypt. What was very special about going to Egypt was that my parents actually met there and lived together in Egypt for 4 years during the 90's. That made it extremely cool to live where our parents met.
Another interesting thing about me is that I have been ice dancing since I was 5 years old. When most people hear that I ice skate, they immediately think about triple axels and jumps. In ice dance, we. do. NOT. jump. It is my biggest pet peeve when someone asks me if I can jump, and when I say that's not what I do, they assume I'm bad. There are 3 different types of figure skating. There is freestyle, pairs, and ice dance. In freestyle you skate solo and do jumps, it is the most common and famous type of ice skating. Pairs is similar to freestyle, except you do it in a team of a boy and a girl. They do lifts, throws, and jumps. Their lifts are called press lifts and are where the boy lifts the girl completely over his head. Ice dance is like ballroom on ice. It is, like pairs, done in a team. Ice dance does compulsory dances, short dances, and free dances. In the dances there are specific elements that must be completed. There are lifts, spins, footworks, and twizzles. In ice dance, however, the girls hips can not be higher than the boys shoulders, but there is more creative lifts than in pairs.
Maybe in another post I will go into more detail about the rules and regulations of ice dancing, but for now I feel as though this post is complete. I just wanted to introduce a little bit of myself and what I like to do.
Hi, my name is Alia.
Now, what is interesting about my life..... let's see. I lived in Egypt for my 5th grade year of school and went to Cairo American College (CAC). We went there because my mom wanted to live overseas for a year with me and my younger brothers. So, my dad took a sabbatical off of work and looked for jobs in other countries. It was down to either Egypt or China and my parents decided on Egypt. What was very special about going to Egypt was that my parents actually met there and lived together in Egypt for 4 years during the 90's. That made it extremely cool to live where our parents met.
Another interesting thing about me is that I have been ice dancing since I was 5 years old. When most people hear that I ice skate, they immediately think about triple axels and jumps. In ice dance, we. do. NOT. jump. It is my biggest pet peeve when someone asks me if I can jump, and when I say that's not what I do, they assume I'm bad. There are 3 different types of figure skating. There is freestyle, pairs, and ice dance. In freestyle you skate solo and do jumps, it is the most common and famous type of ice skating. Pairs is similar to freestyle, except you do it in a team of a boy and a girl. They do lifts, throws, and jumps. Their lifts are called press lifts and are where the boy lifts the girl completely over his head. Ice dance is like ballroom on ice. It is, like pairs, done in a team. Ice dance does compulsory dances, short dances, and free dances. In the dances there are specific elements that must be completed. There are lifts, spins, footworks, and twizzles. In ice dance, however, the girls hips can not be higher than the boys shoulders, but there is more creative lifts than in pairs.
Maybe in another post I will go into more detail about the rules and regulations of ice dancing, but for now I feel as though this post is complete. I just wanted to introduce a little bit of myself and what I like to do.
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| This is me and my old partner at the Lake Placid Ice dance Championships in the summer of 2011. |
Monday, October 1, 2012
Dystopian Trailers
Sound and Music
KillKillKill (Molotov Mix) by TheLoneGunman is licensed under a Attribution Noncommercial (3.0).
Hold Life Still by Donkey Horse Mule is licensed under a Attribution Noncommercial (3.0).
The above links are some sounds and songs I found on various Creative Commons website that I think we can use in our Dystopian Trailers. I chose these two links because they both sound like they could be useful in our trailer. I feel that the first one would be great for an action or fight scene. The second one has a female voice in it and I feel some of what she said could be used as a voice over type thing in our trailer. I am still looking for darker more suspenseful music and sound pieces to create a more dark, depressing, and desperate mood.
KillKillKill (Molotov Mix) by TheLoneGunman is licensed under a Attribution Noncommercial (3.0). Hold Life Still by Donkey Horse Mule is licensed under a Attribution Noncommercial (3.0).The above links are some sounds and songs I found on various Creative Commons website that I think we can use in our Dystopian Trailers. I chose these two links because they both sound like they could be useful in our trailer. I feel that the first one would be great for an action or fight scene. The second one has a female voice in it and I feel some of what she said could be used as a voice over type thing in our trailer. I am still looking for darker more suspenseful music and sound pieces to create a more dark, depressing, and desperate mood.
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